“ They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. ”
They abhor me - Hebrew, They regard me as abominable. They flee far from me - Even such an impious and low born race now will have nothing to do with me. They would consider it no honor to be...
Job 30. Job's Present Misery. As the text stands at present, Job begins by complaining that the very abjects of society now despise him. Many scholars, however, detach Job 30:2-8 as a misplaced s...
face . presence,
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. They abhor me - What a state must civil society be in when such indignities were permitted to be offered to the aged and afflic...
They abhor me, &c.— They abominate me: they hold me in the utmost abhorrence, and fear not to spit in my face. Houb. Heath reads, They hold me in abhorrence; they go out at a distance from m...
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. In my face - rather, refrain not to spit (in deliberate contempt) before my face. To spit at all in presence of another...
Job's Present Misery Job bitterly contrasts his present with his past condition, as described in Job 29 . It must be borne in mind that Job was now outcast and beggared. 1-8. Job complains tha...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
Immediately Job passed to the description of his present condition, which is all the more startling as it stands in contrast with what he had said concerning the past. He first described the base who...
(1) В¶ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. (2) Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit...
They abhor me ,.... As it is no wonder they should, since his inward and most intimate friends did, Job 19:19 ; they abhorred him, not for any evil in him; Job was ready enough to abhor that himsel...
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. Ver. 10. They abhor me, they flee far from me ] As if I were a leper or a bugbear, or that my breath were infectious; like t...
They were children of fools , &c. They were children of base, obscure parents; viler than the earth upon which they trod. Houbigant translates the verse: Foolish men and inglorious, they were d...
MOCKED BY HIS INFERIORS (vv.1-8) What a contrast was Job's condition now! Prominent men of dignity had once shown Job every respect, but now young men of what might be considered the lowest clas...
Job's Humbled Condition. B. C. 1520. 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in...
They flee far from me, in contempt of my person, and loathing of my sores. Spare not to spit in my face; not literally, for they kept far from him, as he now said; but figuratively, i.e. they use...
THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUED With his former state of happiness and honour Job now contrasts his present misery and degradation. His object as well to show the grounds he has for com...
Job 30:1 . The dogs of my flock. Job does not say this through pride, for he owns that the slave and himself were formed by the same hand: Job 31:15 . He says it rather with a view to describe th...
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision. Job’s social disabilities Man’s happiness as a social being is greatly dependent upon the kind feeling and respect which is shown to hi...
EXPOSITION Job 30:1-18 The contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children, flourishing, in favour with both God and man, Jo...
Job Complains of the Contempt he Receives from Men.
Deuteronomy 25:9 ; Isaiah 50:6 ; Job 19:13 ; Job 19:14 ; Job 19:19 ; Job 42:6 ; Matthew 26:56 ; Matthew 26:67 ; Matthew 27:30 ; Numbers 12:14 ; Proverbs 19:7 ; Psalms 88:8 ; Zechariah 11...
Spit — Not literally, for they kept far from him, but figuratively, they use all manner of reproachful expressions, even to my face. Herein, also we see a type of Christ, who was thus made a reproa...